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interarching near the edge; petiole 1—2 cm. long. Flowers: ¢ in 
solitary panicles from the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves, 7—10 
em. long, slender; flowers 2‘5 mm. long on filiform pedicels 5 mm. 
long in subumbellate cymes; bracteoles large, reniform, membran- 
ous, glabrous with ciliate margins; perianth subglobose, sub-inflated, 
very coriaceous. glabrous, its apex with 3 broad blunt shallow teeth ; 
andreecium much shorter than the perianth, broad, subtruncate, 
almost sessile; anthers about 7, their tips free, sub-acute: 9 not 
known. Fruit unknown. King Ann. Calc. III. 287, t. 107 bis; 
Warb. Monog. Myrist. 411. 
Maracca: Maingay K.D. 1305. 
6. Myristica ELLIPTICA, Wall. Cat. 6798A (1828). A tree reach- 
ing 18—24 m. in height and 60—90 cm. in diam. of stem; branches 
stout, spreading; branchlets rather slender, pale, at first rusty 
puberulous, afterwards clabrous like all other parts. Leaves chartace- 
ous; elliptic or elliptic-oblong to linear-oblong, shortly and rather 
bluntly acute or acuminate at apex, cuneate and slightly unequal at 
base; both surfaces pale when dry, upper shining, lower dull, glau- 
cous; margins slightly recurved when dry; 13—20 cm. long, 4—10 
em. broad; midrib stout, prominent beneath; main nerves 8—12 
pairs, distant, curving to and along the margin, slender; reticulation 
not visible; petiole 12—20mm.long. Flowers: 3 in shortly pedun- 
culate, supra-axillary umbels rather longer than the petioles; pedun- 
cles5—7 mm. long; pedicels 2:5—5mm.long; bracteole suborbicular ; 
perianth 8—9 mm. long, elongate and narrowly tubular, suburceolate, 
divided for 4 to } its length into 3 narrowly ovate acute teeth with 
many black glandular dots, puberulous or glabrous without, glabrous 
within; andreecium cylindric, bluntly apiculate, nearly as long as the 
tube, the stalk shorter than the column; anthers about 10: 2? um- 
bellate like the 3: perianth distinctly urceolate, the lobes ovate, 
blunt; ovary sessile, adpressed pubescent, tapering into the oblique 
lateral stigma; style0. Fruit oblong, long-narrowed at the base, 
ridged along the suture, slightly gibbous; 7—8 cm. long, 2—3°5 cm. 
broad, glabrous; pericarp reddish-yellow, thick, succulent. Seed 
cylindric, tapering at the ends; arillus deep red, laciniate at the sides, 
rather succulent. Hook. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 162; A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 
I. 190; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 58; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 102; 
King Ann. Calc. IIT. 295, t. 113; Warb. Monog. Myrist. 485, t. xvi. 
M. calocarpa, Miq. 1.c. 68, Suppl. 383 and Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. IT. 48. 
M, sycocarpa, Miq. l.c. 68 and Ann. l.c. 48. 
